Bluestone backs Delphinus Engineering as Navy sustainment player eyes growth
This investment brings new capital for acquisitions and capability expansion, as well as a new CEO from within. Bluestone Investment Partners has added another defense company to its portfolio in Delphinus Engineering, whose primary customer is the Navy. Delphinus provides maintenance, modernization and industrial services to the Navy and other organizations in the maritime defense community. The investment coincides […]
Selective Service System seeks software to aid the draft
If the military draft were to ever come back, this software would be used to quickly evaluate staffing and resource requirements. The window is now open for vendors to start working on and submitting prices for software that can simulate the military’s personnel needs in the event of national emergencies requiring a draft. While the U.S. […]
The Army changed how it buys but most contractors haven’t changed how they sell
Compressed acquisition timelines are rewarding contractors who invest in customer intelligence months before an opportunity appears. Not the ones who mobilize after it lands, writes growth expert Nic Coppings. A commercial solutions opening lands in your inbox on a Tuesday. Responses are due Friday. Three days. The customer does not want a proposal. They want a […]
Knox Systems turns Microsoft investment into Azure FedRAMP partnership
The agreement lets Azure-based applications tap into Knox’s compliance platform to get authorized in as little as 90 days. Knox Systems has converted a financial partnership with Microsoft into a business partnership that can help companies building cloud-based applications to get FedRAMP-authorized more quickly. Microsoft participated in Knox’s Series A capital round, which was announced in March. The […]
US AI labs are emerging target for foreign spies, experts warn Congress
Former officials told the House Intelligence Committee that U.S. agencies have not kept pace with China’s push to obtain advanced American AI technology. The U.S. intelligence community needs to devote more resources to protecting American artificial intelligence companies from foreign espionage, former officials told the House Intelligence Committee on Tuesday, arguing that China will use a […]
How Anthropic is sending a signal to the market by hiring Teresa Carlson
Her history of turning skeptical agencies into customers signals a shift for the AI pioneer from regulatory defense to an aggressive infrastructure play, writes GovExec Chief Executive Officer Tim Hartman. The federal market has spent the last two years navigating new waters of artificial intelligence. But right as they are steadying their ship, Anthropic has brought […]
Guidehouse hires Hernandez as finance chief, promotes Brown to transformation lead
Kelly Hernandez is returning to the GovCon industry, while Stuart Brown moves up to a new role tied with Guidehouse’s $1.5 billion artificial intelligence investment. Guidehouse has hired a new chief financial officer in Kelly Hernandez, who joins the global professional services firm after four years in the CFO position at Clark Construction Group. This transition […]
Argonne National Laboratory seeks help, resources for AI supercomputing center
The lab is casting its net far and wide for ideas on how to build, operate and finance the future National Genesis Mission Supercomputing Center of Innovation. Argonne National Laboratory has embarked on market research efforts to ask industry, academia and other private sector entities for ideas on how to build a large-scale supercomputing center with […]
Palantir invokes its favorite law again — this time against DIA’s ASTRA solicitation
The company argues a task order for custom development violates the same commercial acquisition mandate that helped it break into the Army’s DCGS battlefield intelligence program. Palantir is again leaning on a 1994 law that it successfully leverage to crack open the federal market to more commercial solutions. The company has filed a pre-award protest against […]
Air Force picks 3 for $1.9B in aerospace program support work
The scope of work covers research, development, and test-and-evaluation activities. The Air Force has awarded three companies a set of task orders with a combined $1.9 billion ceiling over up to five years for technical and management advisory support services. Aventis won two task orders that have a combined maximum value of $847.3 million, while a […]